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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Industry backs Norway’s AI powerhouse project

  Industry and academia in Norway are working together to boost the country’s artificial intelligence capabilities

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Government explores blockchain to make buying and selling property easier and cheaper

  HM Land Registry moves into the next phase of a project that will use the latest technologies to speed up property transactions

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  UK will unilaterally tax web giants, says Hammond

  Chancellor threatens to go it alone on tax reform for digital services businesses if an international agreement cannot be reached

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Two autonomous vehicle projects funded in government contest

  The National Infrastructure Commission’s Roads for the Future contest has awarded a £50,000 prize fund to two projects exploring how to make the UK’s roads ready for connected and autonomous vehicles

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Network growth brings management challenges

  As enterprise networks grow, so do the challenges of managing them effectively, says a report compiled by Oracle’s communications unit

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise

  Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Best supply chain firms are masters of data and automation

  Europe’s best supply chains are making the most out of e-commerce, customer insights and robotic process automation, according to Gartner

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Benioff calls for ‘inclusive capitalism’

  At Dreamforce 2018 in San Francisco, Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff argued for what he called “inclusive capitalism” and urged the technology industry to set the highest possible ethical standards

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Nipping DevOps challenges in the bud

  A clear focus on helping enterprises overcome hurdles in their DevOps journey has been central to Puppet’s growing footprint in Asia

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Salesforce vaunts Apple partnership and 'Customer 360'

  As Dreamforce 2018 gets underway in San Francisco, Salesforce trumpets a partnership with Apple, a customer 360 service, and an upgrade to its MuleSoft “Anypoint” platform

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights importance of sharing the wealth of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, the company CEO Satya Nadella talked up the importance of ensuring the spoils of digital transformation are spread far and wide in society

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Microsoft commits $40m to five-year push to explore 'AI for human good' use cases

  Microsoft wants to encourage non-government organisations and humanitarian groups to help it explore potential use cases for artificial intelligence during times of natural disasters

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Businesses that take humans with them on robotics journeys gain the most

  Businesses that put human development at the centre of their automation strategies will profit the most